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It was not even 24 hours ago that Sophia Said, director of the Interfaith Center; City Director Kathy Webb and others decided to organize a protest today of Donald Trump's executive order that has left people from Muslim countries languishing in airports or unable to come to the US at all — people with visas, green cards,a post-doc graduate student en route to Harvard, Google employees abroad, families. I got the message today before noon; others didn't find out until it was going on. But however folks found out, they turned out in huge numbers, more than thousand men, women and children, on the grounds of the state Capitol to listen to speakers from all faiths and many countries.

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As a Leawood resident, let me say that this disturbing letter does not represent the feelings of everyone in this neighborhood. Some of these young people have been beaten and disowned by their parents. They need all the love and compassion they can get. What a good opportunity it would have been for their neighbors to help them through a horribly lonely and traumatic period in their young lives.

Thank you Arkansas Times for a well-researched (and well-written) article. It's hard to unravel a lawsuit tackling four laws--especially when each of those laws purport to do something other than what they really do, or do much more than anyone thought they would do.

But the people whose goal is to stop abortions at all costs--including a woman's privacy, health, or life--are using this era of political opportunity to throw whatever they want at the wall and see what sticks.

The goal is to keep the advocates and the courts busy and tied up--and they're doing that.

But we've got the law on our side, and WITH YOUR HELP--because we need it more than ever--we can hold the fort. We will hold the fort. All of us, together, against the hordes.

Voter disenfranchisement is serious business! This is everyone's one opportunity to be absolutely equal, to participate in democracy, to have your voice count. It is not too corny to say that the vote is the most precious thing we have.

We have been dealing with the Secretary of State's office over improperly purged voting lists for the last few years: purged because a person moves, or gets married and changes his or her name, or some other reason. It is irresponsible, to say the least.

The Times is right: let's start by not disenfranchising people who have done their time for their crime. I'll bet they learned a lot in prison that they want to express through their vote. Or is that the reason for making it so hard for felons to get the vote back?

What a thrilling story. Thank you John Kirk for teaching me so much about this aspect of the ongoing struggle for equality for Africa-Americans in Arkansas. And thank you for all you do to enlighten us, and remind us that the struggle for civil rights for all is nothing near over.

Darren McFadden, the former Razorback football star, was arrested for DWI Monday after being reportedly found asleep at a Whataburger drive-through in the Dallas area.

Arkansas Public Service Commission Chair Ted Thomas is getting attention for calling out Trump administration climate policy. He even acknowledges the role of carbon burning and humans in climate change.

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department's plan to widen Interstate 30 is a waste of $632 million in taxpayer dollars, an analysis by public policy and consumer groups says.

Indivisible, the grassroots movement to hold members of Congress accountable in the age of Donald Trump, has produced a guide for those faced with dodging congressmen, such as U.S. Sen. John Boozman and U.S. Rep. French Hill.

In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of people whose families had abandoned them. Courage, love and the 30-year secret of one little graveyard in Hot Springs.

The aggressive advertising of Academic Partnerships, a private firm that contracts with Arkansas State University to provide on-line education, has made Academic Partnerships "ASU's face, ASU's identity and ASU's brand," according to the president of the ASU Faculty Senate.